'The contents of the old Gaiety were sold up last week, "Rut for the war there would have been plenty of souvenir-hunters present. As it was, barely 100 people attended, and' the stall in which one may have sat for 12s. Gd, to see Ellaline Terris, Connie Ediss, Seymour Hicks, and all the of the chorus, could be taken away fo> a shilling. Even an elbow chair satin by Majesty in the Royal box only fetched 25s. Two. of the former" beauty chorus came and bowzht a pair of mirrors, which argues a certain courigeous defiance of lime on their part. But in the main, sentiment was com= pletely absent. "Not one of the old-time "stage-door Johnnies" was to be seen. The war has wiped them out oF sent them to more active pursuits and in the post-war London, whatever it may_ be like, recollections of the old Gaiety will'sink into the general haze of that golden past which even now seems too impossibly idyllic to have ever existed,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.